Trailer:
On New York's Queensboro Bridge, two immigrants cross paths. Strangers to each other, they are drawn by a quiet, nameless sorrow to walk the bridge together. Guarded and wary, they cannot bring themselves to trust one another until a shared wound rises to the surface: the pain of rape, buried deep in each of their pasts. As they lay their hearts bare, they come to feel that they are not alone in this world. We often find comfort in strangers whose names we never learn. We are taught that hiding is how we protect ourselves, how we survive. Kindness that asks for nothing in return, the way a child does, and the courage to be truly honest with another person may only become possible once we have lost everything. And yet, what carries us through this world may be the warmth we stumble upon when we least expect it, like a ray of light in the dark, like rain after a long drought.
The Korean word jeong is hard to understand from the outside, and no other language has a word for it. It describes a deep, quiet bond between people. Beyond race and nationality, none of us can deny the humanity that lives within us. Behind the dazzling lights of New York, a city as wild as any jungle, countless people live curled up in the shadows. Among them are Koreans, and people of every race, made equal by the same hardships of immigrant life, tearing down the walls between them as they live side by side. With this film, I wanted to show that each of us is only a single dot in a vast crowd.
About Director
Minae Elena Kim is a Korean-born actress, writer, director and producer based in New York. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Hunter College, and that background shapes her interest in characters who say less than they mean. As an actress, she has appeared in Netflix's Kinda Pregnant and Amazon Prime's Indian Cowboy. She also played a supporting role in Green Night, which premiered at the Berlinale and screened at the Busan International Film Festival. She won a Silver Award at the 24th Korea International Youth Film Festival for her lead role in Hysteria. She has starred in NYU and Columbia University MFA films, including Ice Cream Queen, which was selected for the Asian American International Film Festival and Urbanworld. Before turning to film, she performed stand-up comedy in New York, Los Angeles and London, where she placed second in the London Local Stand-Up Comedy Competition. In Los Angeles, she also produced showcases for women and diverse comedians. On the Queensboro Bridge is her debut as a writer and director.
